Monitoring CPU Temperuture on Solaris8

Dan Stromberg strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu
Fri Feb 18 20:33:55 CET 2005


On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 12:17 +0000, Phil Costelloe wrote:
> Kuru Murat wrote:
> 
> > I need to monitore the CPU temperatur on a Sun Solaris8 machine.
> > 
> > It seams that the plugin check_sensors is only working with 
> > lm_sensors, which is avaiblable only for Linux.
> > 
> > Is there a plugin out there that is also compactibel with solaris8?
> 
> I'm not aware of one. The temperature of the CPU(s) is contained in the
> output of /usr/platform/`uname -m`/prtdiag -v. If you only need to
> monitor a single server (or single class of server) then it should be
> fairly easy to put a custom plugin together. Given that the output of
> prtdiag varies considerably according to the underlying hardware
> platform, writing and maintaining a generic plugin would be a life's
> work.

I'm seeing /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v on a SunFire 4800, but it
doesn't appear to include any temperature data.  Perhaps it only shows
up when the temperature is too high?

Also, there may be an SNMP way of getting this more consistently across
suns.

> Phil
> 
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